Senior Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £76,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 689 765
Rank change year-on-year +6 +76 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 87 44 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.078% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.088% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 66 38 46
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,813 £53,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £54,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £65,000 £67,536
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -3.75% +21.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,125 £80,938
90th Percentile £93,269 £88,750 £98,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +42 20 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South West -23 20 £77,500 +32.05% 4
Midlands +4 18 £57,500 -34.29% 3
West Midlands +4 17 £57,500 -34.29%
East of England +7 14 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North West -5 13 £60,000 -11.11% 3
South East -9 9 £77,500 +19.23% 14
Yorkshire +63 7 £75,000 +27.66% 2
Scotland -65 6 £81,677 -24.02% 1
East Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 3
Senior Data Scientist
UK

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Data Science
2 76 (87.36%) Python
3 65 (74.71%) Machine Learning
4 51 (58.62%) SQL
5 39 (44.83%) Degree
6 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
7 32 (36.78%) PhD
8 30 (34.48%) Agile
9 29 (33.33%) Analytics
10 26 (29.89%) Statistical Modelling
11 25 (28.74%) R
11 25 (28.74%) Artificial Intelligence
12 24 (27.59%) Data Analysis
13 23 (26.44%) Algorithms
14 21 (24.14%) Master's Degree
15 20 (22.99%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (22.99%) Finance
16 19 (21.84%) Pandas
17 17 (19.54%) Visualisation
17 17 (19.54%) Decision-Making
18 16 (18.39%) Technical Leadership
18 16 (18.39%) Statistics
18 16 (18.39%) Banking
18 16 (18.39%) Data Structures
19 15 (17.24%) Random Forest
19 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
19 15 (17.24%) Use Case
20 14 (16.09%) Azure
20 14 (16.09%) Pharmaceutical
20 14 (16.09%) Decision Tree

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) SAS
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 13 (14.94%) GCP
3 9 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.05%) SaaS
5 2 (2.30%) AWS
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) Big Data
2 9 (10.34%) Power BI
3 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 3 (3.45%) Tableau
5 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.15%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.15%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.15%) Redis
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Finance
3 16 (18.39%) Banking
4 14 (16.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (10.34%) Law
6 8 (9.20%) Games
7 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Marketing
9 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.30%) Retail
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.84%) Pandas
2 7 (8.05%) XGBoost
3 5 (5.75%) PySpark
3 5 (5.75%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.75%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.45%) NumPy
4 3 (3.45%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.30%) Keras
5 2 (2.30%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.15%) Django
6 1 (1.15%) Flask
6 1 (1.15%) NLTK
6 1 (1.15%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.15%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Algorithms
2 16 (18.39%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.34%) Life Science
4 8 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (8.05%) Reinsurance
6 5 (5.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Data Science
2 65 (74.71%) Machine Learning
3 30 (34.48%) Agile
4 29 (33.33%) Analytics
5 26 (29.89%) Statistical Modelling
6 25 (28.74%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (27.59%) Data Analysis
8 20 (22.99%) Natural Language Processing
9 17 (19.54%) Decision-Making
9 17 (19.54%) Visualisation
10 16 (18.39%) Statistics
10 16 (18.39%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (17.24%) Random Forest
11 15 (17.24%) Use Case
12 14 (16.09%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (16.09%) Decision Tree
12 14 (16.09%) LLM
13 12 (13.79%) Computer Science
13 12 (13.79%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (87.36%) Python
2 51 (58.62%) SQL
3 25 (28.74%) R
4 1 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (44.83%) Degree
2 32 (36.78%) PhD
3 21 (24.14%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Databricks
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.30%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.15%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle